Bishop

There are bishops and there are bishops. Indeed, the Diocese of Little Rock had four of them before a priest named Andrew McDonald came out of Savannah, Ga., to become the fifth, and Lord willing there will be many others to come after. Yet when people in these parts referred to the bishop, there was no doubt whom they meant. For the bishop would spend 28 years here in Arkansas, and many had known no other. Yes, there were bishops before the Very Rev. Andrew J. McDonald and there would be other bishops...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury said he was hopeful that the Church of England's governing body would approve women bishops when it votes on the issue this week. Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, said the general public would find it "almost incomprehensible" should the General Synod fail to support the move on Monday. The long-running debate pits reformers, keen to project a more modern and egalitarian image of...

John Tomkins began his own defense Wednesday on federal mail bomb charges with a startling admission to the jury. "He mailed threatening letters," said Tomkins, referring to himself in the third person as he defended himself against charges that he is the so-called Bishop bomber. "Hold him accountable for what he did. " Tomkins' remarks, given in his opening statement, made for a riveting scene at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. Jurors edged forward as Tomkins...

Chicago's Cardinal Francis George said Sunday he has submitted a report on the state of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago to the U.S. papal adviser, one more required step in the search for his successor. Speaking outside St. Ladislaus Parish in Chicago's Cragin neighborhood, where he celebrated the parish's centennial, George said he was preparing to travel to New Orleans Sunday night to attend what could be his last U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops...

This is regarding "Wide gulf for Episcopalians; Gay bishop's election splits sermons, raises doubt for church" (Metro, Aug. 11). Your story on parish reactions to the controversy over Bishop-elect Rev. V. Gene Robinson was balanced and perceptive. I wonder, however, if my colleague, Rev. Graham Smith, is correct in his belief "that among the rank and file of the diocese that the majority would be against this" approval of Robinson. In my parish, located in a somewhat conservative northwest suburb, I wasn't...

Oak Brook-based TreeHouse Foods said Tuesday it has hired Rachel R. Bishop, the former head of retail development at Walgreen, as its new Chief Strategy Officer. Bishop had been with Deerfield-based Walgreen Co. for five years. Prior to that, she was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. TreeHouse makes a variety of foods for retail and foodservice include powdered creamers and sweeteners; condensed, ready-to-serve and powdered soups; refrigerated and shelf stable salad dressings and...

Mike Royko's recent column chiding a Catholic bishop for his criticism of Gov. Mario Cuomo's pro-abortion stance is another instance of the popular ploy of some in the media to portray the abortion debate as a Catholic issue. Pretending that opposition to abortion is a Catholic issue obscures the fact that aborting human life is a humane question, not a religious one. Royko attempted to reduce the abortion question to jest by stating that Ed Koch didn`t try to pass laws banning pork when he was mayor of New...

Cardinal Francis George has said for years that he hoped to become the first Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago to retire and meet his successor. Last week, the archdiocese announced that he could get that chance, with the search for the next archbishop expected to be completed in late fall. During George's more than 17 years at the helm of Chicago's Roman Catholic Church, he has earned a reputation as a professor prelate and wise sage among his brother bishops. With that in mind, clergy...

The executives and employees at investment firms from around the country came into a federal courtroom Tuesday to tell similar stories of receiving chilling letters from the mysterious "Bishop. " One opened it in his study at home after his young son handed it to him. Another stood in a New York bookstore as he learned by phone of the "startling" contents. All contained the same urgent, violent threats - the victims needed to help boost the value of stocks in two small companies,3Com...

Try this thought experiment. Imagine you've purchased a lovely new home in a small, pleasant suburb. And once you're settled, you decide to build a large back deck and so you put in for a zoning variance and toddle off to the Village Board meeting to make your case. Then, as the meeting begins, the village president recognizes a bishop from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and asks him to deliver the opening prayer. The bishop asks the assembled to rise and bow...

LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A former Church of England bishop was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting boys as young as 12, police said, the latest public figure to be accused after weeks of child abuse claims that have engulfed the BBC and celebrities. Separate police investigations into the late television presenter Jimmy Savile have fuelled a national abuse scandal that has dominated public debate and provoked a bout of national soul...

The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, whose election to lead the diocese of New Hampshire kicked off a firestorm of controversy a decade ago, said Sunday he was divorcing his husband after four years of marriage. Gene Robinson, who retired as a bishop in 2013, announced the split in a letter to the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and in a personal essay published in the Daily Beast, where he wrote that his "belief in marriage is undiminished. " ...

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A Mormon bishop armed with a Samurai sword came to the defense of his neighbor on Tuesday in a Salt Lake City suburb by helping to chase away a man who had accosted the woman, police said. The 37-year-old suspect, Grant Eggertsen, later turned himself in to authorities and was booked into jail on suspicion of robbery, burglary, trespassing and stalking, said local police spokesman Lieutenant Justin Hoyal. The Samurai sword-wielding...

* Archdiocese says abuse commission confirmed complaints * Amsterdam newspaper uncovered story * Few bishops have been named as abusers themselves PARIS (Reuters) - The Dutch Catholic Church, in the second such embarrassing admission this month, announced on Friday that a bishop who died in 2000 had been found guilty of sexually abusing boys decades ago. Utrecht archdiocese, where Johannes Nienhaus was auxiliary bishop from 1982 to 1999, said a commission...

* Former bishop's presidency marred by scandals, cancer * Allies say could hurt government ahead of 2013 election ASUNCION, June 5 (Reuters) - Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo admitted on Tuesday fathering a second child when he was a Roman Catholic bishop, in an apparent effort to limit damage from the latest paternity scandal to emerge during his four-year-old presidency. Lugo, 61, once known as the "bishop of the poor," had confessed to...

There are bishops and there are bishops. Indeed, the Diocese of Little Rock had four of them before a priest named Andrew McDonald came out of Savannah, Ga., to become the fifth, and Lord willing there will be many others to come after. Yet when people in these parts referred to the bishop, there was no doubt whom they meant. For the bishop would spend 28 years here in Arkansas, and many had known no other. Yes, there were bishops before the Very Rev. Andrew J. McDonald and there would be other bishops...

VATICAN CITY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict accepted the resignation on Tuesday of a bishop in Chile accused of sexually abusing a minor, the latest in a series of such scandals to rock the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican did not specify the reason for the resignation of Bishop Marco Antonio Ordenes Fernandez of the city of Iquique but it followed a complaint by a local man, Rodrigo Pino, who said he had been abused by the prelate when he was 15. ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - It was shaping as a win in the Communist Party's quest to contain a longtime nemesis, the Roman Catholic Church. In July 2012, a priest named Thaddeus Ma Daqin was to be ordained auxiliary bishop of Shanghai. The Communist body that has governed the church for six decades had angered the Holy See by appointing bishops without Vatican approval. Known as the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, it was now about to install Ma, one of its own officials, as...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican removed a German bishop on Wednesday because he spent 31 million euros ($43 million) of Church funds on an extravagant residence when Pope Francis was preaching austerity. It said the atmosphere in the diocese of Limburg had become such that Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst could no longer carry out a "fruitful exercise" of his ministry there. Tebartz-van Elst, dubbed the "bishop of bling", had been ordered to stay out of his...